Baby girl was announced dead at birth, but see what happened 8 minutes later

The experience of your first child being born is often one of the happiest and never forgetting moment for parents, but in case of Martin and Sex Forrest, things were not so easy.

Their daughter Willow Rose had been delivered by emergency C-section after her heart-rate dropped during labour. As they were waiting for cries of their new born baby, their heart broke when the baby was announced dead by doctors.

But wait, the story is not over yet. A miracle was written to be happened on that occasion.

The silence lasted for what seemed an eternity as Willow’s heart stopped for 8 minutes. She had to be resuscitated by staff at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital; they put her into a refrigeration suit and transferred to St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol, where specialists worked for three days to keep her body cool to prevent brain damage.

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After eight agonising minutes medics detected a heartbeat and three minutes later it was fully established.

But Bex and Martin had to look on as 7lb 8oz (3.4kg) Willow was bundled into an incubator and wheeled past them into the High Intensity Neonatal Care Unit.

Astonishingly, 15 months after she was put in the refrigerator suit that cooled her whole body from 37C to 33.5C Willow has made a full recovery.